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Security audit

Descript

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

Descript actions have clear approval safeguards, but setup directs the agent to execute a changeable remote installer without verification or a separate approval step.

Review and approve the CLI installation separately before letting the agent perform setup, including any bundled skill installation or updates. Descript changes already require confirmation. OOMOL mediates account access, so consider its permissions and data handling. The sole bundled artifact was fully inspected; remote installer and connector implementations remain outside that inspection.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Findings (3)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The supplied chunk performs remote installer execution and shows no Descript operations or evidence that this installation supports them. This is materially different from the declared Descript data-management purpose. The downloaded script's contents are not supplied, so its further behavior cannot be determined.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

Piping a remotely downloaded script directly into Bash executes its contents with the agent process's local privileges, without a review step or verification against an independently trusted signature or digest. Compromise of the installer distribution could therefore enable local credential theft or arbitrary system changes; the missing-CLI prerequisite reduces exposure but does not remove the risk, and the PowerShell alternative has the same weakness.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 63)May include surrounding context.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 84)May include surrounding context.

md
- **`OOMOL_INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT`** — OOMOL billing stop. Recharge at `https://console.oomol.com/billing/token-recharge` before retrying.

- **HTTP 402 without `OOMOL_INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT`** — the third-party account itself has no active plan or credit. Report the provider error message as is; do not ask the user to recharge OOMOL.

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